So, admittedly, I do listen to my own music. This helps me reflect on how I play, how I can improve, helps me keep from losing old musical phrases that I like, and also... well, I only make music because I like it, so I like to hear my own sound. Just not TOO much.

But hearing the Continental Breakfast EP has got me thinking - why DON'T we gig more than we do? That is to say, why haven't we really promoted ourselves, other than because we are lazy?

There are some gigs we just aren't cut out for. For instance, when someone hires a band to play at a wedding, they want a band to play sets of standards that people know and enjoy.

But if you hire us to play for three hours, you are hiring four musicians to create four hours of music that you've never heard before and will never hear again. We are SO improv-oriented it's not funny. Don't confuse us with the kind of "jam band" that plays the same chord progression for an hour and drifts off into minor pentatonic heaven without listening to each other. If we play the same chord progression for an hour it's because we haven't finished exploring it yet. Watch what happens on stage. There is more communication between us than some of you have in an entire month... and almost none of it is verbal.

We have an INCREDIBLE group dynamic that I have never seen another local band achieve. We are not just musicians playing together. We are friends, brothers, comrades in a common form of expression, playing, feeling, and thinking the same thing at the same time.

Through music we are drawn closer together and through that expression we make something COMPLETE.

There are a lot of things I could think about the band. I just can't believe how far we've come and how amazingly TOGETHER we are.